eShalom Archive

(I wrote this column some time ago, as will be clear from the opening paragraph. But its message about Sukkot still fits.  Well, kind of, in that our Covid-colored world limits what we can do in a sukkah this year.  Nonetheless, the theology remains apt.) I was caught in a traffic jam today in the […]

There are a couple of ways to talk about atonement. The first, one of my favorites, is to point out that the English word is a conflation of at-one-ment, and tells us that the goal of atoning is to arrive at a sense of inner wholeness, of peace.  In the Jewish way, you arrive at that […]